The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-05-25
The Farm, Garden and Household.

Rub the stove briskly a Jew times WIN
a piece of old newspaper and it will re-
move the grease spots and give it a good
polish.
Keep a shoemaker's knife-stone in
your kitchen for putting a keen edge on
knives. A dull knife is the bane of the
housekeeper.
A~ir-slacked lime sprinkled literally
among potatoes as they are put in the
bin after being dug, is often a preventive
Of the rot. 1t seems to destroy the
fungus.
While planting the tree do not try to
rattle the dirt among the roots by shak-
ing the tree up and down, for this draws
the fine, hair.like roots out of place, but
does not push them back; it folds them
I'D and gets them all out of shape.
1t is a fact that pastures which have
become so thoroughly run out and over
run by briers and bushes as not to be
worth fencing for cattle pasture, by being
turned over to sheep for a few years,
will be brought into a productive con-
dition.
A cold, wet fall will give fruit of a
generally inferior character as regards
sweetness a better flavor. Apples
ripened slowly will keep better during
the winter, and for late varieties 1t is no
misfortune to have the ripening process
completed in the cellar. But for most
other fruits warm weather at ripening
greatly improves their quality.
As no good traveller, after having fed
his horse renews his journey in a trot
but with a slow walk gradually increas-
ing his pace, SO in getting up to address
an assembly for a continued effort, the
first few sentences should be uttered in
a low, slow tone, gradually intensified,
otherwise the voice will break down in a
very few minutes with coughing or
hoarseness.
The toughest and hardest hands can
be made soft and white in a months
time by doctoring them a little at bed
time, and all the tools you need are a
nail brush, a bottle CT ammonia, a box
of powdered borax, and a little fine
white sand to rub the stains of, or a Gu,
of lemon, which will do ave better, for
the acid of the lemon, will clean any
thing. A little ammonia or borax in the
water you wash your hands with, ant
that water just luke-warm, will keep the
skin clean and soft. A little oatmea
mixed with the water will whiten TIT
hands.-Scientiic American.
A French authority gives the following
receipt for a transparent cement which
possesses great tenacity and has not the
slightest yellow tinge: Mix in q wei
stoppered bottle 10 drachms Of chloro
form with lO3 drachms al nonvulcanized
caoutchouc cut in small pieces. Solution
is readily affected, and when 1t is com
pleted add q drachms of mastic. LIE
the whole macerate from eight to tel
days without the application of am
heat and shake the contents of tn
bottle at intervals. A perfectly white
and very adhesive cement is the result
Gradually during the last few years
American dairymen have more closet,
confined their cows, and kept them
warmer than ever before, not onl,
keeping them in warm stables, but resort
ing to artificial heat, and giving then
warm water to drink. Thus far, al
testify to the beneficial results arisini
from these practices. 1t is not the nature
Of the COW to exercise much. She pre-
fers, in the open field, to crop the gras'
until her stomach is full, and then liz
down in the shade and peacefully chev
her cud, with dreamy EXPRESSION of tn
eyes that denotes rest and enjoyment
She does not run and cavort like the
horse. This is not her mission.-Ex.
The best method the writer has eve
found to wean a colt is in the stable il
sight of the mother, and by GRADUALLY
weaving the colt from the milk of tn
mother. For the first three days ALLOW
1t to nurse night and morning (the mar
if giving a full flow of milk should b
MIXED at noon). For the next weel
time Il will abou, ceosa ,o care for m,
I'LL a,to,athar ~ 49, should h,
m;iked inst enough =, Loan the udde
from becoming much feyered durin,
the last week that the colt nurses
After that an occasional milking and
few application, of spirits of campho,
to the udder will complete her dryin,
off. After the colt is weaned it shoul'
have a feed of grain composed of equa
parts by weight of oats and wheat shorts
night and morning, giving about on
and a half to two pounds Of the mixtur
at iced; and II good pasture can D.
mad a daily run at grass until the fai
rains commence, when 1t should b.
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